George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
mind poison body
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]
let-it-go wells
Ty it well, and let it goe.
two agreement ears
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.
two ill thirds
Two ill meales make the third a glutton.
oil
Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]
enemy no-friends needs
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
praise
True praise rootes and spreedes.
loss too-much heed
Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]
eye kites too-much
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
joy
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
bells
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
dog nuts feet
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
wine tables
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
wine fishing pot
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.